Syrian regime warplanes have continued the fiercest aerial campaign in months on rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, carrying out more than ten raids on Monday, as death toll rose to 60 people in three days.
Zaman al-Wasl reporter said Bashar al-Assad's warplanes have conducted more than ten raids on al-Maadi district, two days since 30 people have been killed in an airstrike on the main market of the neighborhood.
On Sunday, Assad air raids struck a school in the opposition-held Ansari neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least ten people, including five children, activists said.
Syrian Civil Defense officials of Aleppo called on citizens to stay in their shelters and basements to avoid regime's aerial bombardment as the death toll rose to 60 people at least.
Insurgents on Saturday bombarded a government-held part of Aleppo overnight, killing at least eight people, Syrian state media reported.
Aleppo, near the Turkish border, is a major frontline in the Syrian war. Rebel groups in and around the city have repelled repeated attempts by the Syrian army and militia fighting with it to cut supply lines from Turkey to the rebels.
Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din al-Hassoun, speaking on state TV, urged the complete destruction of insurgent-held areas from which shells were being fired.
"We inform the civilians there, be they supporters (of the insurgents), or not, to leave the area. Every area from which a shell is fired, should be completely destroyed," he said, according to Reuters.
Zaman Al Wasl
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